(adapted from “Where the Beech Tree Grows”, by Harry Throssel, Binna Burra Lodge Limited, 1984) Tucked away in a wonderful book entitled ‘Where the Beech Tree Grows: The Story of Binna Burra’, by Harry Throssel, is a chapter on a real German-Australian character, ‘Old Bill’. He became the quintessential Australian […]
Culture
In Search of Professor Lau: Naturalist, Explorer and Musician
By Mark Schuster (St Ives, NSW) During the mid to late Nineteenth Century, many German adventurers, naturalists and scientists came in quest of ‘green treasure’ in the Land Down Under – seeking new and unique plant and animal species on the great southern continent. Perhaps the exploits of the great […]
Searching for Albert and Mick: The Hidden History of a German-Sydney Family
Hidden histories, that what I’m into and also that’s what makes my soul tick. Trying to make the past and its many dead come back to life, even putting the clothes and skin back on their decaying bones – and letting their lives be known to our current, media and […]
Der Walfisch von Trial bay (German poem: 1917)
Der walfisch von trial bay poem
Frank Riethmuller – A Son of Toowoomba who Became King of the Roses
Frank Riethmuller – A Son of Toowoomba who became King of the Roses (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Frank Riethmuller (1884–1965) was an expert Australian rose breeder. Studio photo of Frank Riethmuller in Townsville about 1910, when he was 26. Riethmuller began to show roses in Sydney when he was […]
Brisbane’s Pioneering German Doctor – Frederick Staubwasser -article by Dr Owen Harris
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The Whale and Us – A True Story by Martin Kramer, Trial Bay Internment Camp (1916)
The Whale and Us By internee Martin Kramer, Trial Bay Internment camp, 1916 It was 1916 and for myself and 400 other prisoners of war, in the prison camp at Trial Bay in Australia, the war was over. We had been captured from German held islands, from Ceylon to the […]
Roma’s Very Own German band: The Klaas Family
Roma’s very own ‘German band’: The Klaas family On the very weekend I first came to Roma (inland western Queensland) to work as a Queensland Parks & Wildlife Ranger in late August 2017, there was a local market at the Bungil Creek open space precinct. As luck would have it, […]
The German-Queenslanders – A Celebration
The German-Queenslanders – A Celebration The Cultural Contribution Since the 1850s until the present time German immigrants and their descendants, the German-Queenslanders, have made and are still making an enormous and significant contribution to the cultural landscape of our great State. Our early German pioneers brought their ‘cultural baggage’, folkways […]
They Came and They Stayed
‘They Came and They Stayed’: Settlement Patterns of the German-Queensland Communities Unlike South Australia that had a large immigration episode in the mid 1800s from the Silesian province of Germany, the situation in Queensland is more complex in terms of immigration from the provinces of Germany and eventual settlement patterns. […]
